Tag: Enforcement

Experienced criminal antitrust lawyers in the last few years have observed major changes in policies and procedures at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust...

Roxann Henry argues that the current criminal enforcement initiatives of the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division are taking it into territory that will...

While bid rigging and other offenses relating to procurement fraud are nothing new in the history of the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement efforts, the...

Brazilian practitioners face a dilemma regarding conflicting labor and criminal provisions arguably applicable to employees under internal investigations regarding, on one hand, employee cooperation...

By Caio Mario S. Pereira Neto1   As pointed out in the OECD’s recent Background Note (OECD 2022), interim measures are an important tool designed to...

The Justice Department’s antitrust division is promoting Manish Kumar, the chief of its San Francisco office, to acting head of criminal enforcement. Kumar, a 13-year...

Government enforcement and private litigation of the Robinson-Patman has been minimal during the past decades. However now the FTC –– among many others ––...

Through the lens of a recent trip to Pine Ridge, SD, we argue why enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act is a necessity for rural...

The flaws in the Robinson-Patman Act are well known. It protects competitors at the expense of consumers and rarely stops the buyer-induced discrimination it...

Originally passed in the mid-1930s to protect small grocery businesses in the face of fast-growing chain supermarkets that could negotiate steep discounts for bulk...